You can often learn more from a counter-example than from a pile of role models. If something 's gone badly wrong, you can see what it is and how it affects the play experience -- you can pick the bones out of a bad game much better than a good ...

Casual games can be very good at this. Consider Plants vs Zombies. As the game begins to get complicated and accumulates a large variety of plants to choose from, it restricts the choice for each level. This keeps the amount of choice manageable, and also encourages the player to try ...

The idea is very intriguing So intriguing that I can 't be sure whether I 'd want to play it, or whether it would be just too scary to contemplate. r n r nMy natural gameplay style is to explore everywhere and examine everything. It would be really frustrating to ...

I recognised the Guardian of Light room as soon as you started demonstrating that last puzzle r n r nOne important thing I noticed from the state graph of that puzzle -- it not only showed that there were many possible dead-end branches, but also that it was possible to ...